A shortlist of FreeBSD packages

freebsd-packages-shortlist.md

A shortlist of FreeBSD packages

Packages that I often install on test systems.

pkg install --quiet --yes drm-kmod firefox gdisk gitup htop hw-probe kde lsblk lynx nano pciutils plasma6-sddm-kcm roxterm sddm stressdisk uclcmd usbutils virtualbox-ose-additions xfce xorg

I normally omit:

• drm-kmod when installing in a VirtualBox guest
• kde and plasma6-sddm-kcm when I want Xfce alone
• virtualbox-ose-additions when installing on real hardware.

A shortlist of installations for FreeBSD 15.0 pkg-upgrade(8) test purposes:

drm-kmod firefox gitup got htop hw-probe kde lsblk lynx nano pciutils plasma6-sddm-kcm roxterm sddm uclcmd usbutils virtualbox-ose-additions xfce xorg

• added got because it's favoured at https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2025-September/005011.html
• omitted stressdisk because fallout occurred
• 965 packages on AMD64 at the time of writing.

I added sysutils/gdisk whilst drafting https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289651#c4. For quick and easy preparation of a device and a partition prior to creating a ZFS pool.